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Once again, from the most powerful military in world history — protecting the largest-ever economy — bombs. As in 24 years of bombing Iraq, 13 of Afghanistan, as in Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Has this done anything to liberate anyone or save lives? These illegitimate, unjust immoral wars of aggression have not.

Tomorrow Pres. Obama is speaking at Northwestern University. This is an opportunity to say loud and clear: NO MORE BOMBS, NOT IN OUR NAME!

The Islamic State offers a disastrous future for the people, and is no damn good.

But U.S. occupations, bombs, economic exploitation, and support of almost every reactionary regime in the region have done more damage, by far, than any Islamic fundamentalist group ...in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the Bush regime that sold the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq — countries that never attacked the U.S. — on the basis of defeating the Taliban and al Qaeda. Those wars have in fact only strengthened the basis on which those groups recruit.

Obama now owns this ultimate war crime — invasion of a sovereign nation that poses no imminent threat to the aggressor. “We” did not ask for or approve this war. U.S. attacks always lead to civilian casualties and are fueling — not “degrading” — the spread of groups like ISIS.

NOTHING good can come from U.S. bombing, and we need to say so immediately and widely.